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DENDROBIUM. 



D. Parishii. 



Eudenbrobium — Fasciculata. Stems thickish, a foot or more long, 

 curved, decumbent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, 3 — 5 inches long, 

 deciduous. Flowers solitary or in fascicles of twos and threes, pro- 

 duced on the leafless stems along more than the distal half of their 

 length ; sepals oblong-lanceolate, rosy amethyst-purple ; petals oval-oblong, 

 similarly coloured ; lip orbicular, downy above, amethyst-purple, with 

 a maroon blotch on each side, below which are some purple markings. 

 Column white, except the anther case, which is purple. 



Dendrobium Parishii, Rchb. in Bot. Zeit. 1863, p. 237. Bot. Mag. t. 5488. Xen. 

 Orch. II. p. 140, t. 152. Jennings' Orch. t. 39. 



Sent from Moulmein in 1863, by the Rev. C. Parish, after whom it 

 is named, to Messrs. Low and Co. Its flowers are almost as hand- 

 some as those of Dendrobium nobile, but its ugly crooked stems 

 are not likely to be mistaken for the more elegant upright ones 

 of its congener. It usually flowers in June and July. 



D. Phalaenopsis. 



Stachyobium — Speciosce. Stems 15 — 21 inches long, nearly as 

 thick as the little finger. Leaves lanceolate- acuminate, 5 — 7 inches 

 long, confined to the upper part of the stems. Peduncles terminal or 



Dendrobium Phalrcnopsis. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle. 



pseudo-terminal, slender, nearly as long as the stems, racemose along 

 the apical half, 10 — 15 flowered. Flowers 2£ — 3£ inches across, on 

 slender pedicels, at the base of which is a minute scaly bract; sepals 



